Let’s make a reading list. Which one book did you read in 2022 which you would recommend friends read in 2023? I’ll start: This One Sky Day by Leone Ross. Yours….?
I see Raynor Winn has already been suggested, and I will back up her first two books with her latest Landlines - a beautiful read. Thoroughly enjoyed attending the book launch too and chatting to Raynor about facing fears and continuing on journeys.
It’s pure poetry; a tender love letter to nature & the end of innocence. A work of such care & crafted consideration, whether read solely in the Dorset dialect (my preference) or the corresponding modern translation.
I nearly said the Paper Palace but thought someone else was bound to cover that one ;-). This one is different, an insight into a different culture and time, with a strong feminist theme and fabulous main character.
Read Raynor Winn, the salt path and the wild silence. Both great true stories full of
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
Very popular choice ... loved it
One you miss when you’ve finished…
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Brilliant
This is not a pity memoir by Abi Morgan
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid 😁
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, a different read for me but thoroughly enjoyed it
Ah yes it made our women’s prize for fiction shortlist
Go tell the bees I am gone. Diane gabaldon long but great.
The Change by Kirsten Miller.
LOVED that book, what a fun surprise.
Demon Cpperfield
Barbara Kingsolver
Just hear her interviewed on Times Radio Fi and Jane podcast and am about to hop off and buy!
It's a good one
I am waiting for this book. I love kingsolver
I was late to it but absolutely loved I am an Island by Tamsin Calidas. Thought it was an amazing book.
Also Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason too.
I was late to the party with this one but LOVED Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
I see Raynor Winn has already been suggested, and I will back up her first two books with her latest Landlines - a beautiful read. Thoroughly enjoyed attending the book launch too and chatting to Raynor about facing fears and continuing on journeys.
Its an old book of short stories, but I just discovered it this year & it is gorgeous. A glove shop in Vienna by Eva Ibbotson.
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich &
What You Can See from Here - Mariana Leky.
Both fantastic, both a bit quirky.
The girl on the 88 bus
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
On my Xmas list
Orlam by PJ Harvey
Interesting choice
It’s pure poetry; a tender love letter to nature & the end of innocence. A work of such care & crafted consideration, whether read solely in the Dorset dialect (my preference) or the corresponding modern translation.
First Woman - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
I don't know about this one? will research it
I nearly said the Paper Palace but thought someone else was bound to cover that one ;-). This one is different, an insight into a different culture and time, with a strong feminist theme and fabulous main character.
The God of the Woids by Liz Moore. (Heft is another book by her that is amazing!)